Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Draw. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Draw Quotes and Sayings from 87 influential authors, including Kimon Nicolaides,Henri Matisse,Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,Cennino Cennini,Tintoretto, for you to enjoy and share.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye. By Kimon Nicolaides Learning Correctly Eye Draw Matter

Drawing is ... not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. By Henri Matisse Drawing Dexterity Moods Exercise Expressing

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines By Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Draw Lines Lot

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good. By Cennino Cennini Fail Day Worthwhile Good Draw

You can never do too much drawing. By Tintoretto Drawing

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought. By John French Sloan Drawing Graphic Plastic Arts Cornerstone

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath. By Mervyn Levy Sketching Art Free Happy Bath

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. By Barbara Hepworth Draw Rarely Body Feel

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. By Edgar Degas Drawing Expression Writing Reveals Painting

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. - Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother By Hokusai Drawing Vincent Gogh Van Brother

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. By Gene Black Draw Fallow Diminishes Drawing Lies

Drawing is the true test of art. By Horace Drawing Art True Test

I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet. By Mary Engelbreit Quiet Draw Late Night House

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. By Henri Matisse Precise Draw Make Idea Drawing

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit. By Maria Montessori Graduated Drawing Leading Creation Exercises

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job. By Ralph Bakshi Feel Job Draw

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death. By Tomi Ungerer Drawing Expression Direct Personal Kind

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. By Adam Gopnik Drawing Art Accomplishment Bones Skill

My interest in drawing has died down here in England, but maybe I'll be in the mood again some day or other. Right now I am doing a great deal of reading By Vincent Van Gogh England Interest Drawing Died Mood

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going. By Tomm Moore Drawing Spend Day Process Important

I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5) By Sherman Alexie Unpredictable Drew Words

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. By Vincent Van Gogh Things Succeed Despair Decay Expected

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive. By Shahzia Sikander Drawing Imagination Practice Navigating Remains

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit. By Henri Matisse Spirit Senses Drawing Belongs World

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. By Paul Klee Drawing Walk Art Taking Line

None of my kids can draw! By Charles M. Schulz Draw Kids

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading. By Leonardo Da Vinci Talent Shading Taste Love Discernible

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor. By Thomas Jefferson Drawing Innocent Engaging Amusement Mother

I love very much to draw animals. By Josef Albers Animals Love Draw

Drawing is deception. By M.c. Escher Drawing Deception

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw. By Andrew Loomis Draw Cent Ten Ninety

Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self. By Richard Tuttle Drawing Life Art Quintessential Knowing

Anyone can learn how to draw. By Liron Yankonsky Draw Learn

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly. By Jerry Lawler Draw Artist Effortlessly Amazed

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it. By David Hockney Urge Draw Deep Children Love

Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! Magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work. By Grayson Perry Usb Draw Drawing Page Insert

I don't admit that a woman draws that well! By Edgar Degas Admit Woman Draws

When you have practiced drawing for a while ... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters. By Cennino Cennini Practiced Drawing Masters Pains Pleasure

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. By Michelangelo Treasure Attained Power Drawing Holds

Never draw more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon By Alan Afternoon Draw Morning Erase

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path. By Jacob Collins Beautifully Draw Investigate Path Important

look before you draw and believe what your eyes, not the rest of your head, tell you. By Danny Gregory Eyes Head Draw Rest

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa. By Jack Kirby Years Draw Estimation Lisa Mona

So I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me. By Sherman Alexie World Draw Talk Pay Attention

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing authoritatively the unknown.::: Brett Whiteley ::: By Brett Whiteley Drawing Art Leave Accurate Record

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands. By Millard Sheets Drawing Understands Eyes Mind

I was one of those kids that always drew all the time. By Kirsten Lepore Time Kids Drew

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness. By Michael Kimmelman Drawing Writing Civilized Thing Reading

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see ... And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are ... that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth. By Patricia Reilly Giff World Drawing Deep Head Paper

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. By Chuck Jones Artist Thousands Bad Drawings Rid

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. By John French Sloan Painting Drawing Color Additional

I work on drawing as a final product. By Deanna Petherbridge Product Work Drawing Final

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability. By Anthony Browne Draw Ability Lose

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well. By Leroy Neiman Draw Time Drawing Backbone Painter

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done By Pierre Bonnard Composition Drawing Wellcomposed Painting Half

Drawing is putting a line around an idea. By Henri Matisse Drawing Idea Putting Line

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. By David Hockney Drawing Draw Activity Time

Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity. By Sri Chinmoy Sea Draw Mood Contemplative Mind

You're demonstrating your own skills in a vulnerable way when you draw. By Molly Crabapple Draw Demonstrating Skills Vulnerable

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it. By Christian Louboutin Drawing Bad Shoes Draw

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw. By Lynn Johnston Imagined Draw

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory - where it stays - it's transmitted by your hands. By Martin Gayford Clearer Drawing Makes Things Brain

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure. By Michael Foreman Drawing Structure Teaches Things Properly

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. By Giorgio Vasari Art Drawing Beginning

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started. By Chuck Jones Started Million Bad Drawings

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. By Balthus Draw Eyes Pencil

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity. By Robert Genn Spontaneity Lot Drawing Tyranny Impedes

With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing. By Gunter Grass Paper Writing Acutely Aware Creating

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that? By David Almond Drawing Closely Makes World

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master. By Walter J. Phillips Hard Successful Painter Worked Drawing

All my work begins with drawings. By Ellsworth Kelly Drawings Work Begins

Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and naturally find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw continuously. By Rico Lebrun Someday Questions Understand Things Fundamentals

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. By Marc Davis Experience Drawing Performance Body Giving

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people. By Richard P. Feynman Caltech Practiced Drawing Time Interested

Draw without mercy. By Gabriel Campanario Draw Mercy

Drawing is an idea more than fact. By Jack Shadbolt Drawing Fact Idea

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped. By Ellsworth Kelly Boston Taught Draw School Stopped

Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see. By Peter Capaldi Generally Draw Day Hand Tube

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake. By Peter Wright Subject Meditation Studying Observation Case

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. By Vincent Van Gogh Drawing Delightful

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse. By Ken Danby Drawing Collapse Good Foundation Painting

The process of drawing is ... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture ... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication. By Michael Ayrton Process Drawing Visual Action Thought

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it. By Margaret Atwood Drawing Thing Make

First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see. By Robert Beverly Hale Draw

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way. By Chaim Potok Millions Draw People Art Scream

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing. By Josh Trank Drawing Believer Talk

Humans are the only animals that draw ... Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood. By Peter Steinhart Animals Practically Childhood Humans Draw

Actually, I don't really draw that well. It's just that I don't stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen to have high standards and I try to meet them. I have to struggle like hell to make a drawing look good. By Milt Kahl Draw Quickly Stop Good Happen

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. By Camille Pissarro Drawing Incessantly Character Fine Day

We must cling only to drawing. By Nicolas De Stael Drawing Cling

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making. By Joaquin Sorolla Picturemaking Older Realize Drawing Important

It is through drawing that masters are first revealed, through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may impose on their talent. By Michael Gerard Bauer Drawing Revealed Talent Masters Live

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so. By William Morris Hunt Draw Canvas Flatter Feel Express

I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time. By Sean William Scott Begin Draw Rhythm Emerges Searching

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color. By Nelson Shanks Drawings Work Found Years Medium

Remember: Writing is drawing. By Danny Gregory Remember Writing Drawing

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework. By Robert Crumb Guess Enjoy Drawing Homework

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing ... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity. By Chris Riddell Drawing Show Fun Parents Activity

Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times. By Coeur De Pirate Drawing Side Times

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. By Jim Dine Drawing Attitude Necessarily Make Making